{"id":129277,"date":"2022-08-15T12:03:58","date_gmt":"2022-08-15T16:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=129277"},"modified":"2022-08-15T12:03:58","modified_gmt":"2022-08-15T16:03:58","slug":"white-house-afghanistan-withdrawal-memo-responds-to-pending-republican-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=129277","title":{"rendered":"White House Afghanistan withdrawal memo responds to pending Republican report"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A member of “Team Biden” wrote a memorandum defending Joe Biden’s decision to withdraw from Afghanistan. The memo presents points made criticizing the Afghanistan withdrawal, along with an explanation responding to each point. They dismissed the Republican report as being “cherry picked” with “false claims”.<\/p>\n

From the memorandum:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

* This partisan report is riddled with inaccurate characterizations, cherry-picked information, and false claims. It advocates for endless war and for sending even more American troops to Afghanistan. And it ignores the impacts of the flawed deal that former President Trump struck with the Taliban.<\/p>\n

* When President Biden took office, he was faced with a choice: ramp up the war and put even more American troops at risk, or finally end the United States’ longest war after two decades of American presidents sending U.S. troops to fight and die in Afghanistan and $2 trillion spent. The President refused to send another generation of Americans to fight a war that should have ended long ago — and we fundamentally disagree with those who advocated for miring the United States’ fighting men and women in an indefinite war with no exit strategy.<\/p>\n

* Bringing our troops home strengthened our national security by better positioning us to confront the challenges of the future and put the United States in a stronger place to lead the world. It freed up critical military, intelligence, and other resources to ensure we are better poised to respond to today’s threats to international peace and stability — whether that be Russia’s brutal and unprovoked assault on Ukraine, China’s increasingly assertive moves in the Indo-Pacific and around the world, or a persistent terrorist threat that’s gone global and not constrained to Afghanistan.<\/p>\n

* The United States does not need a permanent troop presence on the ground in harm’s way to remain vigilant against terrorism threats or to remove the world’s most wanted terrorist from the battlefield. We just demonstrated unequivocally in the recent Zawahiri strike to take out the leader of Al Qaeda.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Fox News has the article, and memorandum, at this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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